Study Shows Women Drink Faster Than Men

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It never fails: I'm out for happy hour with my girls after a long week. I order a drink, it arrives—and I down it in two gulps.

Round two? Same deal.

Am I a big drinker? Hardly—I usually have two or three drinks when I go out. I just drink them quickly and then sit around for hours while my pals nurse their margaritas.

My friends think I'm strange (and admittedly, I probably am), but a new study shows that my drinking habits aren't that unusual. The study—conducted on 985 participants—found that men have more drinks per hour than women, but the ladies down the booze a lot quicker.